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Web APIs
Camille ThomasLIS 5362
• Application Programming Interface
• What does that even mean?
What is an API?
• Integratedo Drag & Drop
• Standardized
• Open APIs
• Examples:o Google Mapso Facebook Grapho Amazon
Types of APIs
• a.k.a. What does this have to do with dev?
• http://www.programmableweb.com/apis
• HTML5
• RESTful vs. SOAP
Client-side development
• WHATWG- Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
• W3C
History
• How does it work?
• Simple machine
• Lets you write apps that use other appso Twitter API
• Google Entrepreneurs Tutorial
BUT HOW??